Whelp, I guess I now own my last Samsung phone. It was a good run. I've been considering going pixel for a while so I can put graphineOS on it. This just helps me make that decision.
this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2025
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Running GrapheneOS on a Pixel is incredibly easy. You don't need to be technical at all to get it set up. The instructions and the process are simple. Get on it!
It's more a matter of running out the clock on my S22. When this puppy is dead, pixel is next.
I'm thick as mince and am running GrapheneOS, AND I came from 16 years of iPhones.
If I can do it, anyone can.
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Why would anyone opt in 😭
Is this just so they can wait a few months and say, "Not enough people were discovering this Great Feature, so we're enabling it by default"?
I've already been getting the itch to leave Samsung and try something different. I'm keeping my eye on the upcoming Nothing Phone 3, if it's genuinely a "flagship" for £800 I might jump ship.
I know a bunch of folks who will opt in because their thought process regarding technology is pretty much "new = good."
Pixel is a decent alternative, and de-googled pixel is even better yet.
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Why would anyone opt in 😭
Because the checkbox will be checked by default, and most people just speedrun through the setup as if it was a competition
I tried a Samsung phone a year or two ago. It lasted less than a day before I was so infuriated that I vowed never to use Samsung again. It is SO invasive and pushes so many ads and bloatware.
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I was just sitting there looking at the cool art I have as a lockscreen wallpaper and im thinking, man I wish my phone would scan my face and place an ai slop image with my face badly right on my lock screen. Thank god Samsung is so in touch with what features consumers want added to their $1000 devices.
Absolutely wild clown show we're living in
, and so the enshitification of what once was a great phone continues.
Oh good, another reason not to buy Samsung anything. I already just didn't like their UI.
Could they not?
If companies don't push the envelope, nobody will mark it return to sender.
So...what'll probably happen:
- Samsung does this. It is universally despised.
- A year will go by, and Google will do this. It will be universally despised.
- A year will go by, and Apple will do this. It will be loved by Apple users and despised by everyone else.
- A year will go by and it's a part of every Android phone on the market. Apple users will accuse Android of "stealing" the feature. Everyone else will despise it.
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That's gonna be a yikes from me dawg
What the fuck.
Fascinating stuff.
I do think there will eventually be pushback against the current oligarch model of technology, but it is likely I will be much older when it happens.
Just the nature of history. We are pretty early in the information age.
The Samsung robot army will make an uprising really difficult
Awesome. Stand on the big X and pull the lever, Samsung.
who the fuck is going to buy anything that's endorsed by my ugly mug?
Yeugh. This makes me feel sick.
what a pile of fuck
I have an ancient Samsung. Its going to die soon. I don't think I can get a pixel here. What are my options, coz I also hate apple?
Just get a mid-range Samsung device and remove the relevant apps and get a custom launcher.
Or get a Fairphone if you can afford it.
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I'm trying to think of something more fucked up, but I'm struggling, here.
Well that sounds like techno fash rape
Haven't Samsungs always been trash though? From a software perspective, I mean?
I've never owned one, but I've tried to troubleshoot a few for relatives, and always found their version of Android to be just cunty.
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